WW3 Defense - Explode small nuke flares in the path of incoming missiles?

[obsidian]

If you have a bunch of incoming nukes, why not just explode a series of nuke flares at high altitude? Assuming you can track the areas of the incoming missiles accurately. You want to be high enough to avoid EMP damage on the ground. And the density needs to be high enough to impact a large area in the sky.

In the movie "By Dawn's Early Light", Rebecca De Mornay's character is a co-pilot in a B-52 bomber on their way to the Soviet Union. They are being pursued by MIG fighter jets. She comes up with the idea to release one of their nukes and detonate it behind them over the mountains. The MIG jets are then destroyed when they fly into the explosion. She ends up with a literal blinded black eye when she looks directly at a nuclear explosion. They have heavy curtains in those planes to prevent being blinded by explosions. She peaked through the curtains.

[obsidian]

https://www.quora.com/Would-a-defensive-nuclear-explosion-be-enough-to-disable-an-incoming-nuclear-warhead-and-knock-it-out-of-the-sky-or-do-they-move-too-fast-for-that-to-have-an-effect

The Martin Martietta “Sprint” missile may look kind of goofy and modest…



…but this — in my opinion — is the most no-nonsense weapons the US has ever fielded.

This was an ABM — anti-ballistic missile — defence weapon. In the 1960’s this was supposed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads.

How it did that is spectacular, in every step of the way…

The missile was stored in silos. When it was to be launched, the cover over the silo was ejected with explosive charges

An explosively activated piston threw the missile out of the silo

The first stage started and propelled the missile for only 1.2 seconds. But the thrust of that stage was 40% of the thrust of the Saturn V moon rocket engines

Stage 2 kicked in and within 5 seconds of launch, this missile was at 10 times the speed of sound, or more than 3.2 km / 2 mi per second, or 12,250kph / 7,610mph. The peak acceleration was about 100g

The missile “coasted” up to the target within 15 seconds. During that time, the speed was such that the drag against the atmosphere made its nose glow white hot at 3,400 °C / 6,200 °F. This caused a plasma field around the missile to block its radio commands from the ground, so they had to have very powerful transmitters to punch through this plasma.

In the 1960’s, they were still not very good with fine precision when it came to making objects meet at a relative speed of over 20 times the speed of sound. So the Sprint killed in the incoming nuclear warhead, with a nuclear explosion of its own. The W66 warhead was a miniature nuclear device that produced an “enhanced radiation” blast, and simply instantly radiated the enemy nuke so it could not function.

So, how does this work?

In two ways…

The intense neutron radiation damages the weapon’s sensitive electronics that are needed to trigger the detonation, with the hope that they will be disabled and fail to function.

The neutrons will contaminate the fissile materials of the nuclear warhead to throw the parameters needed for a successful detonation out of whack, essentially making the weapon a “fizzle”.

[Rambone]

Obsidian right now. The children are the other Getbiggers.

[Humble Narcissist]

Best just to avoid a nuclear war.

[_bruce_]

https://www.quora.com/Would-a-defensive-nuclear-explosion-be-enough-to-disable-an-incoming-nuclear-warhead-and-knock-it-out-of-the-sky-or-do-they-move-too-fast-for-that-to-have-an-effect

The Martin Martietta “Sprint” missile may look kind of goofy and modest…



…but this — in my opinion — is the most no-nonsense weapons the US has ever fielded.

This was an ABM — anti-ballistic missile — defence weapon. In the 1960’s this was supposed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads.

How it did that is spectacular, in every step of the way…

The missile was stored in silos. When it was to be launched, the cover over the silo was ejected with explosive charges

An explosively activated piston threw the missile out of the silo

The first stage started and propelled the missile for only 1.2 seconds. But the thrust of that stage was 40% of the thrust of the Saturn V moon rocket engines

Stage 2 kicked in and within 5 seconds of launch, this missile was at 10 times the speed of sound, or more than 3.2 km / 2 mi per second, or 12,250kph / 7,610mph. The peak acceleration was about 100g

The missile “coasted” up to the target within 15 seconds. During that time, the speed was such that the drag against the atmosphere made its nose glow white hot at 3,400 °C / 6,200 °F. This caused a plasma field around the missile to block its radio commands from the ground, so they had to have very powerful transmitters to punch through this plasma.

In the 1960’s, they were still not very good with fine precision when it came to making objects meet at a relative speed of over 20 times the speed of sound. So the Sprint killed in the incoming nuclear warhead, with a nuclear explosion of its own. The W66 warhead was a miniature nuclear device that produced an “enhanced radiation” blast, and simply instantly radiated the enemy nuke so it could not function.

So, how does this work?

In two ways…

The intense neutron radiation damages the weapon’s sensitive electronics that are needed to trigger the detonation, with the hope that they will be disabled and fail to function.

The neutrons will contaminate the fissile materials of the nuclear warhead to throw the parameters needed for a successful detonation out of whack, essentially making the weapon a “fizzle”.

Interesting!

[tacobender]

Best just to avoid a nuclear war.

fuck it let’s just get down all the elites will just flee to another planet with space x

[Humble Narcissist]

fuck it let’s just get down all the elites will just flee to another planet with space x

More like underground bunkers here on Earth.